It's obvious. Resetting the search index clears all search results. It does however not remove all crawled and managed properties. SharePoint (2013) remembers them forever.
The only option to remove ...

I am using SharePoint 2010 and FAST search. I have created a new content source with 1 site collection. This site collection is new and I created only 2 items inside a list. I started a full crawl for ...

I am using SP2013 on-premise. On a site collection's Pages library there is a Managed metadata column "Wiki Category" and allowed mulitple values. At the same time I have enabled multiple values for a ...

Short version of question - Does the index crawl through the content of uploaded documents, and if so, can that be turned off?
Longer version - I have a site consisting entirely of uploaded PDFs of ...

We have a legacy records management system that we want to index in SharePoint 2013. We just want to index it and leave the documents where they are.
The records management system of course has a ACL ...

I'm trying to index a web site that is hosted on a separate server in the domain but every time the crawler runs it returns a ball of warnings and errors the first time, and then the server becomes ...

I've been trying to crawl an external site using SharePoint 2010 in which I'm only interested in crawling results for the content stored in various subfolders underneath a root path.
The root path is ...

we have a SP2007 search service attached to our SP2007 server used to create and store some PDFs.
Every night an incremental crawl job starts, and everything works fine... but some night ago (4 sept ...

While Crawling the SharePoint site on different farm, we are getting a warning The URL was permanently moved. (URL redirected to XXXX/pages/xyz/abc.aspx)
And only this page (XXXX/pages/xyz/abc.aspx ) ...

I am using sharepoint 2010. I have created a document library. Inside this library I am using a custom content type. In this content type I have 3 custom columns like (Company name, Company address, ...

I have a SharePoint list that contains multiple fields. One of which is a multiline "Notes" field that is not included with the default view. When I perform a search on the list, I can search on any ...

Our setup currently consists of a very large number of search files that results in a 100+GB CI file. We still have crawls running which is the issue.
There is now another CI file still less than our ...

I'm trying to find an explanation of the crawl error "The item could not be indexed successfully because the item failed in the indexing subsystem.". I get a lot of these when indexing a file share. ...

I am assisting a friend by moving him from managing a business entity from Excel to Access. Because he desires the data to be viewed/edited from multiple locations, I suggested a MS Access database ...

This is a SharePoint 2013 Enterprise environment. The crawler refuses to crawl a single page correctly. No other errors show up in the crawl log and every other page is crawled correctly. The error ...

What's the reason that SharePoint 2013 may process 'If-Modified-Since' header value in an invalid way?
Case:
I have a file A.txt in a list;
I download the file and see the date XXX in Last-Modified ...

We are experiencing an issue whereby scheduled crawls on our SharePoint 2007 platform aren't automatically executing.
If i run a manual crawl then the crawl runs and finishes correctly with all new ...

I'm having a problem when I try to reset the content index in SharePoint 2013.
When I try to reset the index from the 'Search Administration Page', the page hangs for about a half-hour then returns ...

We have a particular site collection that is becoming a problem (with huge amounts of content, large lists etc), and it is massively interfering with the indexing process. Whilst ideally we would sort ...

Our Sharepoint servers were shut down safely as part of a backup, and when brought back online we noticed multiple errors in the crawl log, and no successes.
The error was "The account password was ...

Some info:
In my SharePoint 2010 environment I have set the "Draft Item Security" to "Only users who can edit items". The search service account have Full Read permissions and should be able to index ...